Dogs dressed in their winter sweaters and hats? What could be more festive and fun than the Winter Dogs 500 Piece Puzzle from Galison? Piece together to reveal the scene of dogs and their owners out and about getting ready for their holiday celebrations, image by Louise Cunningham - Box: 8 x 8 x 2.5'' , Puzzle : 20" x 20" - Contains informational insert about artist and image

Artisan Art Notebooks, the new Journals from Flame Tree in a range of hues to suit the moment and featuring magnificent art. They're hand crafted with decorated edges overflowing with petals, teasing vines and patterns. A unique blend of the practical and beautiful, with two ribbons and lined pages, the Artisan Art Notebooks are perfect for notes, creative writing, poetry, doodles and lists. And, with robust flexi covers, they're easy to slip into your bag, a pleasure to use. Simply, they feel good! In a letter to his sister Wilhemina, Van Gogh wrote: 'Often it seems to me night is even more richly coloured than day.' In this night painting, the sky is Prussian blue, ultramarine and cobalt, with sparkling yellow stars and swirling clouds. The view depicted is from his asylum room at Saint-Remy-de-Provence.

Charles Fort's classic recording of unexplained, paranormal events and phenomena offer fascinating insights into bizarre occurrences the author felt had been unjustly damned from formal, scientific study. The title derives from the author's perception that the book's subjects were so stigmatized and excluded from ordinary scientific inquiry that they had become 'damned'. Perhaps permanently forbade for formal study, the oddities and unexplained events in this text were felt worthy of attention by the author, who eventually became an authority on anomalous phenomena. The topics in Fort's thesis include unexplained disappearances of large groups of people, frogs and fish suddenly raining from the sky, the possibility that mythical beasts such as giants exist, UFOs manifest as glowing and sometimes moving lights in the sky, and bizarre weather phenomena. Fort attributes credence to many of these oddities, and argues that science - by dismissing them - has become a religion in itself.

Tragic Sense of Life is a book of philosophical reflection which considers the nature and transience of humanity, the trials - physical, societal and emotional - of existence, together with death and the afterlife. A superb treatise whereby the author's intellect is unleashed upon a variety of questions, this text combines the passionate liveliness found in Unamuno's fictional efforts with a thought-provoking gravitas cast upon life and living. The towering ambitions of man are shown to pale in the face of limitations and reality: immortality, the greatest aspiration of all, is but an impossibility. The title, in alluding to tragedy, foretells the author's argument that life and human nature have a strong streak of absurdity. In the final chapter, the author compares the classic story of Don Quixote - the man whose mad ambition led him to ride his horse in four directions at once - with everyday human life.

Take this perfectly portable little adult colouring book along wherever you go, and you'll always be ready to colour whenever inspiration strikes! Inside you'll find dozens of cute woodland and underwater critters including owls, birds, butterflies, hedgehogs, foxes, turtles, seahorses and more.Each adorable animal is just waiting to be filled with your favorite watercolours, coloured pencils, felt tip pens, crayons, gel pens or crayons. Color Animals Coloring Book includes helpful advice on choosing colours, with suggested colour palettes and fully coloured examples to inspire your imagination.With a lay-flat, top-edge binding, this book is small enough to colour anywhere, but big enough for creative fun. Printed on one side only of archival-grade, acid-free, 200-year paper, each perforated page detaches easily for gifting or display.

Osborne Russell's thrilling lifetime of trapping and wilderness exploration makes for adventurous, eventful and highly readable autobiography. In the nineteenth century, the USA's wilderness was enormous and largely uncharted by the white European settlers who had, until the nineteenth century, been largely confined to the easterly coasts of North America. The discovery of the Rocky Mountains - a remote and rugged landscape unfamiliar to all but the local Native American tribes - sparked a new phase of exploration. Among the first people to learn the lay of these vast lands were fur trappers and traders. Hearing tell of great forests and craggy lands, heavily populated by beasts whose pelts would fetch a great price, trappers such as Osborne Russell ventured to these places in search of adventure and fortune: exotic, high quality fur pelts in those days fetched a handsome price at market.

The cover design of this beatific journal is a reproduction of a gold-tooled book binding created by the Henry T. Wood bindery of London in 1933. The Wood firm was known for its distinctive designs, as evidenced by the subtle symmetry and intricate details of this cover.

Features:

• Iridescent highlights and gold foil treatments light up the sun, planets, stars, borders, and other particulars against a background of cerulean blue.
• Embossing adds dimensional detailing, while a hubbed spine with gilded touches recalls tomes of old.
• Gilded page edging is a classic touch.
• An elegant ribbon bookmark keeps your place.
• 160 lightly lined writing pages provide plenty of space in which to write favorite quotations, poems, and personal reflections.
• Acid-free, archival paper takes pen beautifully.
• Black elastic band attached to back cover keeps your place or keeps journal closed.
• Complementary interior endsheets.
• Journal measures 6-1/4'' wide x 8-1/2'' high.